Frank Schirrmeister

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Frank Schirrmeister is executive director, strategic programs, system solutions in Synopsys' System Design Group. He leads strategic activities across system software and hardware assisted development for industries like automotive, data center and 5G/6G communications, as well as for horizontals like AI/ML. Prior to Synopsys, Schirrmeister held various senior leadership positions at Arteris, Cadence Design Systems, Imperas, Chipvision and SICAN Microelectronics, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement. He holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Berlin and actively participates in cross-industry initiatives as chair of the Design Automation Conference's Engineering Tracks.

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Putting Kurzweil’s Singularity To The Mobile Test

By Frank Schirrmeister - 18 Oct, 2011 - Comments: 2

I have been fascinated by Ray Kurzweil’s book "The Singularity is Near"for a while (great book, the documentary “Transcendent Man” gives a great summary, and apparently a movie is coming up too). Bottom line Kurzweil is charting the accelerating rate of technology change. That chart hits the x-axis in 2045 and that’s the singularity as it is unclear what happens then. Do we have to adap... » read more

Ripple Effects Through Value Chains

By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 Sep, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister This is the inaugural post for “Frankly Speaking,” a blog focused on embedded software and system-level design technologies, their adoption as technology themselves and how they enable technology adoption in the end markets. Tracking adoption and understanding its dynamics has been a passion of mine ever since I went to engineering school. After developing lots of... » read more

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